What is Bricolage?
A bricoleur as an energetic self is someone who is constantly constructing or creating ideas achieved by using whatever comes to hand. Bricolage is the act of repair/ mending to make something that maybe physically useful or not. Ge-ba: Chinese Textile Collages uses the idea of repair. These textile paintings were made using scraps, collected from different materials. These put together were not to repair the existing but to mend the social life. We also looked at the mechanics, politics, and spatiality of the bricoleur’s practices along with the biography of the bricoleurs through examples in art and architecture.
Ramesh Nair is a painter who works on the idea of deconstructing physical spaces, playing the role of a bricoleur, finding beauty, and recreating it through the technique of Cubism. His paintings focus on different kinds of architectural spaces in an unconventional manner, finding aesthetic essence in their deconstruction.
Derives
Moving through the city, wandering aimlessly without direction or destination in mind. It was fun to move around speaking to strangers, having encounters with completely new people.
While going on derives we came across bricoleurs in the city. There are so many people around us who have their practices as a bricoleur. One of the examples was the shop in Lower Parel he had a collection of these old objects. At a corner he had some of these objects reconfigured to make a completely new one.
My practice of a bricoleur evolved from the idea I started during lockdown. During the lockdown period, since going outside was restricted the leather of the shoes was all torn away. I thought of mending it by hydro-dipping. During this course I further developed this idea of not looking at mending in an artistic way but as a bricoleur. The trope of body, something which relates to to touch, something which can be wearable. What is a garden that one can wear? Can you walk along while something is growing?
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